Apropos this error:

> media://1178298547.683145/libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rp
> m: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> 
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failed to retrieve 
> libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from sl-base error was 
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>

I've come across this recently in the context of an FC7 install - the
solution for me was to remake the repo idexes (createrepo).

	Martin.
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> Behalf Of John Summerfield
> Sent: 14 October 2007 03:14
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> Subject: Setting up a network install source from DVD
> 
> I've mounted my DVD ISO and can access the readme at 
> http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os/README
> 
> The instructions for setting up the install tree (just above 
> INSTALL) were correct for previous releases, but are now 
> probably wrong: one does not merge repos that way!.
> 
> However, for DVD images the error does not matter. I have set 
> up my install tree by "mount -o loop," equivalent to copying 
> the image as described in that readme.
> 
> When I try to "yum install" from the tree, this is what happens:
> 
> 10:02 [summer@numbat ~]$ sudo yum install libnjb-devel 
> libmtp-devel libid3tag-devel
> Password:
> Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing 
> package install arguments Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for libid3tag-devel to pack into 
> transaction set.
> media://1178298547.683145/libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rp
> m: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> 
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failed to retrieve 
> libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm from sl-base error was 
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media>
> 10:02 [summer@numbat ~]$
> 
> On looking at the file SL/repodata/primary.xml.gz
> 
> I see ="media://1178298547.683145" 
> href="libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-3.sl.i386.rpm"/><format><rpm:lic
> ense>GPL</rpm:license><rpm:vendor>Scientific
> 
> I'm using this repo definition:
> 10:12 [summer@numbat ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/install.repo 
> [sl-base] name=SL 5 base 
> #aseurl=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/$basearch/SL
> baseurl=http://rhel.demo.lan/ScientificLinux/5.0/i386/os/SL
> debug=4
> #mirrorlist=ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mir
> rorlist/sl-base-50.txt
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> 10:13 [summer@numbat ~]$
> 
> 
> What might be wrong, and how do I fix it?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> -- spambait
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